Chinese officials say that members of the country's Muslim Uighur
ethnic minority have gone overseas to fight with Islamic State, which
controls sections of Syria and Iraq, and returned to take part in plots
at home.
Authorities in the far-western region of Xinjiang,
which borders Afghanistan and Pakistan, will strengthen their crackdown
on terrorism and extremism, regional representatives said at a
discussion on the sidelines of China's legislature.
Xinjiang has seen repeated violence as Uighurs have
bristled under what they say is repressive Chinese government rule.
Attacks blamed on Uighurs have also occurred in other parts of the
country, including a car which plowed into Beijing's Tiananmen Gate in
2013, killing five people.

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